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September Schedule! at 31st Street Pub!
September 4, 2009 at 5pm to September 30, 2009 at 7pm
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- MUSIC GENRE(s): What music style(s) do you perform and/or are you in to?
- All Original Rock, Punk, Metal, local and National Acts
- CONTRIBUTION TO LIVE MUSIC: (what's your game?): Are you a performer, act, enthusiast (fan), promoter, venue, publisher, photographer, what service, etc?
- Live band / Music Venue
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- TRIBUNE-REVIEW
As live music venues close, one hangs on By Andrew Johnson TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Obscenities are scrawled wall-to-wall in the back room where musicians wait to take the stage. Stickers of bands like The Burning Sensations cover every inch of the men's room. The main lobby honors the owner's decades-long interest in collecting skulls. Letty DiGirolamo said she comes anyway to the 31st Street Pub. "It's not a dive bar," said DiGirolamo, 37, of Weirton, W.Va. Her boyfriend, Harrison Dray, plays bass in Pittsburgh punk scene staple, The Science Fiction Idols, and she knows enough dive bars.
"This place is a palace," said former club owner Johnny "Banana" Zarra, of the defunct Electric Banana. "Now my place, that was a (expletive)." Live music is on the decline in Pittsburgh. R.I.P.: Metropol, Club Laga, Nick's Fat City, Rosebud, Cloud 9 -- all in the past two years. The shutterings have only accelerated since Zarra's Bigelow Boulevard place pulled its music plugs in 2000.
But here at the 31st Street Pub in the Strip District, one hard core band of concertgoers -- and one man -- keeps alive in the tiniest club of them all.
The 31st Street Pub has offered live music for 10 years. It opened in 1962.
That's when Harry Greenfield, now 81, bought a bar inhabited by mill workers. The older Greenfield said that worked all right, until the mill closed. Son Joel, whose teenage interest soon blossomed into skull collecting, helped plot the bar's dark, outlaw future. Greenfield, a biker, turned the pub into a biker bar. Greenfield said a biker bar was a good fit. He was always attracted to people, like him, who scared others. "I liked it when (moms) pulled their kids away from me," he said.
Life was good for awhile: The White Stripes played twice in 2001, arguably the club's biggest moments.
The artists, are very loyal. "I love it," said Angelo Amantea, 39, a drummer for The Science Fiction Idols, who has played the pub hundreds of times. Amantea said one of his old bands, The Ultimatics, once made $900 during a CD release party.
Big bands, and big-name appearances, witnessed through the 31st Street Pub: •The White Stripes -- twice in 2001 •Marky Ramone (drummer from the Ramones) and the Intruders •Mo Tucker (drummer from the Velvet Underground) •The Black Keys •Sylvain Sylvain (guitarist from the New York Dolls)
THE 31ST STREET PUB STORY:
•Mill worker bar, 1962 to late-1960s •Trucker bar, late-1960s to late-1970s •Biker bar, late-1970s to mid-1990s •Punk rock bar, mid-1990s to present
PUB BREAKDOWN
Atmosphere: The motto, "High Octane Rock and Roll" pretty much says it all. The perfectly dingy rock club fills a long, dark and narrow barroom leading to "The Skull Room." Yes, there's a wall cabinet full of dozens of skull paraphernalia, from skull-shaped mugs and candles, to Mexican Day-of-the-Dead figurines, to what look like actual human skulls. So if your idea of "atmosphere" is the Osbournes family reunion, complete with all the weird uncles and cousins they couldn't show on TV, this is your place. Party People: Bikers, spiked-and-studded punkers, long-haired metalheads, tattooed rockabilly cats with leather jackets and greased-back hair, hard-drinkin', disheveled garage rockers and a few gnomish music geeks. It's a surprisingly open-minded and friendly bunch.
Tunes: One of the best places to check out great regional and national touring bands before they get too big -- and expensive.
-- Michael Machosky/Tribune-Review
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*See myspace schedule blog for Pub guidelines
*This is an over 21 club, all shows are for ages 21 and over. We feel bad for those of you who are under 21, but the laws in our great commonwealth prohibit the 31st Street Pub from hosting underage patrons. Bands take note: all band members, all guests, including photographers, merchandise people, girlfriends/boyfriends or groupies must be 21 or older.*
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12-4 FRI. 12-10 THU. 12-17 THU .12-18 FRI. 12-26 SAT. 12-31 THU.
NOW BOOKING JAN, FEB,March 2010! Call now 412-391-8… Continue
Or stop down and talk to JOEL WED-THUR-FRI.AFTER 3:00pm
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NOW BOOKING: LOCAL PITTSBURGH BANDS… MUST HAVE A DRAW!
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Hey R★ck St★rs looking for a gig? We are now booking LAST OPEN DATES IN 2009:
12-4 FRI. 12-10 THU. 12-17 THU .12-18 FRI. 12-26 SAT. 12-31 THU.
NOW BOOKING JAN, FEB,March 2010! Call now 412-391-8… Continue
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